It’s not just bridging the gender gap, it’s about pay transparency

It’s part of a policy called jantelagen; a foundational belief that no citizen is better than another, wirtes Mary Morrisy

On current projections it will take 81 years for the world to close the gender pay gap completely. That’s the depressing prediction from Tara O’Neill of global recruitment agency Morgan McKinley. That’s a long time to wait.

I, for one, won’t be around to see it. But the one good effect of the recent controversy about pay rates for top female media stars is that the issue of equal pay for women has broken through into the main news agenda.